VII Special      Website   Contact   Archive   Store   Education   Exhibitions   VII The Magazine       VII ANNOUNCES NEW & UPCOMING BOOK RELEASES .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS BY VII Questions Without Answers presents the groundbreaking works of VII and includes over 50 photo stories. Spanning subjects ranging from conflict, humanitarian crisis and social commentary to fashion and portraiture, each story highlights not only a critical moment in our history over the last 20 years but also each photographer's rare insight and individual voice. FORMAT: Hardcover PAGES: 368 ILLUSTRATIONS: 450 Color and B&W images SIZE: 300 x 225 mm PUBLISHER: Phaidon LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978 0 7148 4840 2 PUBLICATION DATE: Spring 2012 RETAIL PRICE: £49.95 / €69.95 / $75 USD COLLECTOR'S EDITION ALSO AVAILABLE PRE-ORDER » .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. AMERICANS BY CHRISTOPHER MORRIS Americans is the second book in a series on America by Christopher Morris. While the first book My America (Steidl, 2006) focused on Republican nationalism, Americans takes a much broader journey across American society. With an empathetic and critical eye, Morris presents a nation in a state of perpetual loss and its people searching for an identity – stranded within two long-running wars and an economy on the verge of collapse. FORMAT: Hard Cover, clothbound with dust jacket PAGES: 200 ILLUSTRATIONS: 117 photographs SIZE: 7.9 x 9.1 in. / 20 x 30 cm PUBLISHER: Steidl LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-3-86930-448-9 PUBLICATION DATE: Spring / Summer 2012 RETAIL PRICE: £40.00 / €48.00 / $68.00 USD .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. BEHIND THE CURTAINS OF 21ST CENTURY COMMUNISM BY TOMAS VAN HOUTRYVE Over the course of seven years, Tomas van Houtryve secured unprecedented access to North Korea, Cuba, China, Nepal, Vietnam, Laos and Moldova. He discovered a secretive world of revolutionaries, spies, opposition fighters and ordinary workers. His photographs explore the gulf between the high ideals of Communism and its complex present day reality. With a foreword by philosopher Tvzetan Todorov. FORMAT: Hardcover PAGES: 288 SIZE: 210 x 228 mm PUBLISHER: Editions Intervalles (English, French editions) & Benteli (German edition) ISBN: French Version: 978-2-916355-64-1 ISBN: English Version: 978-2-916355-65-8 ISBN: German Version: 978-3-7165-1714-7 PUBLICATION DATE: March 2012 RETAIL PRICE: £42.00 / €39.00 / $65 USD PRE-ORDER » .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. THE FAMILY BY JOCELYN BAIN HOGG The Family, the hotly anticipated exhibition and book by Jocelyn Bain Hogg about the Pyle brothers and the larger-than-life characters of London's notorious underworld. FORMAT: Softcover PAGES: 176 SIZE: 33 x 28.5 x 4 cm PUBLISHER: Foto8; 1st edition (2011) LANGUAGE: English ISBN-10: 0955958091 ISBN-13: 978-0955958090 PUBLICATION DATE: December 2011 RETAIL PRICE: £45.00 / $70.00 USD COLLECTOR'S EDITION ALSO AVAILABLE Accompanied by a signed special edition silver gelatin 8x10" print handmade by Jocelyn. FORMAT: Hardcover, dust Jacket, blind-embossed cloth-bound RETAIL PRICE: £150.00 / $230.00 USD ORDER » .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. RED THISTLE BY DAVIDE MONTELEONE Red Thistle, the 2011 winner of The European Publishers Award for Photography, is a powerful and fascinating exploration of the important but relatively unknown region and people of the Northern Caucasus. It lies between the Black and Caspian Seas and is within European Russia. Wars have been fought here for centuries - the most recent in Chechnya. Monteleone examines the stubborn, rebellious culture of this region, which although part of Russia, differs in the ethnicity, religion and social customs of its inhabitants. FORMAT: Hardcover (final cover to be confirmed) PAGES: 128 SIZE: 18 x 24 cm PUBLISHER: Actes Sud (France), Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK), Kehrer Verlag (Germany) and Peliti Associati (Italy) LANGUAGE: English, French, German, Italian, Greek ISBN: 978-2-330-00210-7 PUBLICATION DATE: March 2012 RETAIL PRICE: €39.00 (to be confirmed) .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. WITNESS NUMBER EIGHT BY ED KASHI The very act of creating this book touches upon my desire to reach out to others and to report on issues throughout the world. I am constantly looking for ways to expand the conversation of my work and the medium of photojournalism; to ultimately broaden the ways in which we tell stories and share our personal feelings. In a sense, this book is a different way to look at the world using both internal and external impressions, words and images. The depth of my feelings, touched so deeply and so often by the realities I witness, are the testimony I want this collection to reveal. - Ed Kashi FORMAT: Hardcover PAGES: 88 SIZE: 9.5 x 12 inches PUBLISHER: Nazraeli Press LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-1-59005-268-6 PUBLICATION DATE: March 2012 RETAIL PRICE: $40.00 USD PRE-ORDER » .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. EIGHT DAYS BY VENETIA DEARDEN I felt an urge to take off on a trip – to do something unscripted. To document a self-expression that is increasingly precious in a society where we have perhaps become imprisoned by our own material desires. Our spirits can fly far and beyond these paradigms...All humans were nomads once, and even in today’s over-civilized, aspirational world we still feel a residual need to move with our own chosen communities. Tribal gatherings are as ancient a part of life, recently resurgent. I am curious about the social migrations to these larger festivities, and the pace at which they continue to gather notoriety. -Venetia Dearden FORMAT: Softcover PAGES: 80 pages with 47 images SIZE: 24 x 32 cm PUBLISHER: Kehrer Verlag (Germany) LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978 3 86828 254 2 PUBLICATION DATE: January 2012 RETAIL PRICE: €36.00 ORDER » .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. INTERROGATIONS BY DONALD WEBER After a lone trip to Chernobyl in 2005, Donald Weber soon returned to the abandoned site of the nuclear disaster and spent the next six years in Russia and Ukraine photographing the ruins of the unstoppable storm we call history. Travelling and living with ordinary people who had endured much, and survived everything, Weber began to see the modern State as a primitive and bloody sacrificial rite of unnamed Power. Interrogations is the result of his personal quest to uncover the hidden meaning of the bloody 20th Century. FORMAT: Softcover with cardboard slipcase PAGES: 176 SIZE: 17 x 24 cm (landscape) PUBLISHER: Schilt Publishing LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978 90 5330 7595 PUBLICATION DATE: December 2011 RETAIL PRICE: £24.90 / €29.00 / $40.00 USD COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS ALSO AVAILABLE: ADVANCED EDITION: 5x7" print + book + limited edition poster, €75.00 / $95.00 USD BRONZE: 8x10" print + book + limited edition poster, €160.00 / $200.00 USD SILVER: 20x30" print + book + limited edition poster, €350.00 / $500.00 USD GOLD: 30x40" print + book + limited edition poster, €750.00 / $1000.00 USD ORDER » .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. © VII Photo 2012 Facebook Twitter Visionaires subscribe» Nick Papadopoulos Sales and Research Europe, Asia, Africa +33.1.4013 9561 nick@viiphoto.com Alina Grosman Sales and Research U.S. and the Americas +1.212.337.3130 alina@viiphoto.com Dominique Viger Sales and Research France +33.1.4013 9561 dominique@viiphoto.com Kimberly Soenen Director of Business Development & Project Funding +1.212.337.3130 kimberly@viiphoto.com